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Efficient organic mulch thickness for soil and water conservation in urban areas
The use of organic mulch is important for urban green applications. For urban areas in arid and semiarid regions receiving short high-intensive rainfall, rainfall characteristics, and soil slope play an important role for mulch functioning. These properties of mulch were studied. For this purpose, r...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7973797/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33737595 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85343-x |
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author | Wang, Bing Niu, Jianzhi Berndtsson, Ronny Zhang, Linus Chen, Xiongwen Li, Xiang Zhu, Zhijun |
author_facet | Wang, Bing Niu, Jianzhi Berndtsson, Ronny Zhang, Linus Chen, Xiongwen Li, Xiang Zhu, Zhijun |
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description | The use of organic mulch is important for urban green applications. For urban areas in arid and semiarid regions receiving short high-intensive rainfall, rainfall characteristics, and soil slope play an important role for mulch functioning. These properties of mulch were studied. For this purpose, rainfall simulation experiments using organic mulching were conducted in Jiufeng National Forestry Park to analyze the influence of organic mulch under different slope and heavy rainfall events. The results showed that soil water content displayed a decreasing tendency with increasing mulch application. Compared to bare soil, a mulch application of 0.25 kg/m(2) and 0.50 kg/m(2) led to maximum soil water content and maximum runoff decrease occurred for 0.50 kg/m(2) mulch. Higher application rate of mulch displayed less soil water content and greater runoff. The runoff amount and runoff generation rate decreased by 28–83% and 21–83%, respectively, as compared to bare soil. With a mulch application of 0.25–1.00 kg/m(2), soil drainage accounted for 56–60% of total rainfall. Overall, an efficient mulch application was found to be 0.25–0.50 kg/m(2). The results of this study are relevant for arid and semiarid urban regions that experience heavy rainfall. |
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spelling | pubmed-79737972021-03-19 Efficient organic mulch thickness for soil and water conservation in urban areas Wang, Bing Niu, Jianzhi Berndtsson, Ronny Zhang, Linus Chen, Xiongwen Li, Xiang Zhu, Zhijun Sci Rep Article The use of organic mulch is important for urban green applications. For urban areas in arid and semiarid regions receiving short high-intensive rainfall, rainfall characteristics, and soil slope play an important role for mulch functioning. These properties of mulch were studied. For this purpose, rainfall simulation experiments using organic mulching were conducted in Jiufeng National Forestry Park to analyze the influence of organic mulch under different slope and heavy rainfall events. The results showed that soil water content displayed a decreasing tendency with increasing mulch application. Compared to bare soil, a mulch application of 0.25 kg/m(2) and 0.50 kg/m(2) led to maximum soil water content and maximum runoff decrease occurred for 0.50 kg/m(2) mulch. Higher application rate of mulch displayed less soil water content and greater runoff. The runoff amount and runoff generation rate decreased by 28–83% and 21–83%, respectively, as compared to bare soil. With a mulch application of 0.25–1.00 kg/m(2), soil drainage accounted for 56–60% of total rainfall. Overall, an efficient mulch application was found to be 0.25–0.50 kg/m(2). The results of this study are relevant for arid and semiarid urban regions that experience heavy rainfall. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7973797/ /pubmed/33737595 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85343-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Bing Niu, Jianzhi Berndtsson, Ronny Zhang, Linus Chen, Xiongwen Li, Xiang Zhu, Zhijun Efficient organic mulch thickness for soil and water conservation in urban areas |
title | Efficient organic mulch thickness for soil and water conservation in urban areas |
title_full | Efficient organic mulch thickness for soil and water conservation in urban areas |
title_fullStr | Efficient organic mulch thickness for soil and water conservation in urban areas |
title_full_unstemmed | Efficient organic mulch thickness for soil and water conservation in urban areas |
title_short | Efficient organic mulch thickness for soil and water conservation in urban areas |
title_sort | efficient organic mulch thickness for soil and water conservation in urban areas |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7973797/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33737595 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85343-x |
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